Education

Many private pre-schools in Hanoi are open and operating illegally regardless of regular inspections conducted by the city’s education authority.

Thirty-two teams have begun their attempt to win the 2018 Vietnam Robot Contest (Robocon Vietnam) in the final round, which opened in the evening of May 8 in Vinh Yen city, the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Cambodia and the University of Cambodia (UC) inaugurated a Vietnam Room at the university on May 7.

PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc agreed in principle to a plan to build Binh Dinh Province into a scientific and educational urban area when visiting the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education.

Higher education systems in the ASEAN region are becoming more open to international engagement, says a report entitled "The Shape of Global Higher Education."

The 19th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO 2018) officially commenced at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology on May 6, in the presence of Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha and APhO President Kwek Leong Chuan.

About 80 percent of students have problems that they want to share with others and want a private space in the school to seek help and talk about their problems, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s surveys

A Vietnamese pupil may miss the opportunity to participate in an international science fair in the US after his visa application was rejected twice.

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that there are more than 925,000 students that have registered to sit the high school graduation and college entrance exams.

An article published on The Diplomat magazine has looked for the reason behind an increasing number of people in the Republic of Korea learning Vietnamese, a less familiar language compared to English.

A forum on Vietnam – China tertiary education took place in Hanoi, gathering representatives from 30 Chinese universities with high global ranking.

The Ministry of Education and Training has permitted more private universities to offer medical courses starting in 2018-19.

For the past ten years, people in Vietnam have begun to refer to Montessori as a great educational method for children, especially those aged six years or less.

Newton Grammar School in Hanoi has asked George Washington International School to prove its right to legally operate in Vietnam so that the two sides can continue the training co-operation.

BAA Training has recently announced the establishment of a new company in Vietnam - BAA Training Vietnam – which will operate a training center with four full flight simulators and an Ab Initio flight school by 2023.

Singapore's Kinderworld Education Group has announced plans to open a branch in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Pupils of different grades in a mountainous commune of Thanh Hoa Province have to sit in the same classroom due to a shortage of classrooms.

The Ministry of Education and Training will reduce the enrollment quota for teaching majors in the 2018-19 academic year by 33 per cent compared to the figure of last year.

Kindermusik, a music education programme aimed at children, was launched at the Soul Music & Performing Arts Academy in Ho Chi Minh City, on April 14, by the Asia Music and Performing Arts Education (AMPA).